Apocalypse Now Vs Vietnam War
The United States as a country never experienced an international war conflict that will significantly destroy their land, cities or cost lots of lives of innocent civilians. If the US was participating in the war it was usually under the label of rescuers. It is right that they helped to save lots of nations during the war times but sometimes we should ask was it necessary to expand the problem into the war such as Vietnam War? They wanted to protect democracy and yes, it is important but they were not fighting on their land again. The fact of not knowing what it is to suffer from huge bombing and loosing lots of innocent lives can result in different perception of the war. American movie Apocalypse Now described Vietnamese as voiceless people who did not know how to protect their country. Although Americans came to the Vietnam without invitation to help them, they just started to destroy their country, the book The Sorrow of War challenge the American perception of Vietnamese as
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The helicopter scene is an exemplary example of that. When American soldiers in the helicopters flight to destroy a Vietnamese village, accompanied with loud sound of Wagner’s composition Ride of Valkyries, they do not show even for a second some thinking that there are innocent people who do not anything to do with the political issues. They just came and unmercifully fire whole village. The lack of interest that they are devastating Vietnamese land, is shown when the Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore say to Lance that he can go surf and show what he knew. Even though this scene is serious and violent image of the Vietnam War, Apocalypse Now described it as common day in Vietnam. The only people who talk are the American soldiers. Vietnamese just scream and run away as cowardly people. The Apocalypse Now show the disrespect of the Americans against
The helicopter scene is an exemplary example of that. When American soldiers in the helicopters flight to destroy a Vietnamese village, accompanied with loud sound of Wagner’s composition Ride of Valkyries, they do not show even for a second some thinking that there are innocent people who do not anything to do with the political issues. They just came and unmercifully fire whole village. The lack of interest that they are devastating Vietnamese land, is shown when the Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore say to Lance that he can go surf and show what he knew. Even though this scene is serious and violent image of the Vietnam War, Apocalypse Now described it as common day in Vietnam. The only people who talk are the American soldiers. Vietnamese just scream and run away as cowardly people. The Apocalypse Now show the disrespect of the Americans against